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Setting up a New NW Scheme -
guidelines
- Obtain an information pack from the
Police Community Contact Officer or from the Neighbourhood Watch
Administrator - see under contacts.
- Read the information pack to ensure
that you have a clear understanding of the initiative. Work out a
vision of how a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme can be made to work in your
neighbourhood.
- Talk to neighbours and friends about
your ideas on setting up a scheme. They should help you to work out if
it is needed or can be made to work in your neighbourhood.
- Arrange a meeting with your Community
Contact Officer/Community Beat Officer or Neighbourhood Watch Administrator
to discuss your views and the results of the consultation with your
neighbours.
- Arrange a launch meeting calling all
the interested parties together to ensure that everyone's knowledge and
understanding of the initiative is equal and that all members know what to
expect from the Scheme and how it works. This will also be a good
opportunity for your Community Beat Officer or Community Contact Officer to
introduce themselves to your neighbours.
- Select a scheme co-ordinator.
This, in most cases, will be the person who made the initial enquiry.
Also request the help of a deputy co-ordinator, to assist the scheme
co-ordinator. Register the scheme with your local Community Contact
Officer at your respective Sector Station (for this area the contact is
Eric Spoelstra at St. Neots Police Station). You can either use
the downloadable
registration form or ask Eric for one.
- Street Signs can be obtained by using
the "Sign Order Form" enclosed in your launch pack (or, again you can
download the form
from here). Your Community Contact Officer will be able to tell you
the cost of the signs. Door and window stickers will be provided free
of charge, together with crime prevention literature, at the time of your
scheme's launch meeting.
- It is important that the scheme
co-ordinator and deputy keep in regular contact, not only with each other
but also with other members of the scheme, to share useful information and
maintain standards of best practise. The Crime Prevention News (CPN),
from the Home Office, will be delivered every quarter to the scheme
co-ordinator, for circulation through the scheme. Keep in touch with
your Community Contact Officer. They are your link with the Police and
will be able to give you relevant information on crime in your area.
You can download a printable (pdf)
version of this
here.
If you need it, Adobe's pdf reader can be
obtained, free, by clicking on the link
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